Dunsinane Blues

Cleo Laine · 1964 · Pièce longue de Shakespeare and All That Jazz, avec le sextet de Dankworth

Context

Track from Shakespeare and All That Jazz (the critic gives '22 min' without specifying whether this is the duration), an album recorded in March 1964 on Shakespeare texts set to music by John Dankworth. The sextet includes Ken Wheeler on trumpet.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, British jazz. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Fear No More (1964)
• Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind (1964)

Sources

• jazzjournal.co.uk

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